https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/page/10/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/clutch-plays-louis-varland-big-week/Welcome back to Blue Jays Clutch Plays, a recurring post that highlights the six most pivotal plays (three pitching, three hitting) from the past week of Blue Jays baseball, according to MLB's win probability model. Click here to read last week's edition. At long last, the Blue Jays finally...3278Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:54:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/closer-by-committee-jeff-hoffman-louis-varland/It’s official. On Friday afternoon, before the Blue Jays’ weekend tilt against the Cleveland Guardians, Ross Atkins spoke to the media, confirming what many fans were speculating or outright hoping for: Jeff Hoffman is out as the Toronto Blue Jays' closer. The leash seemed to be short for H...3275Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:13:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/jeff-hoffman-velocity/This article was written prior to games on April 24, and prior to the announcement that Jeff Hoffman is no longer Toronto's closer. There’s this annoying fiction in baseball that velocity is the end-all, be-all. If you're a pitcher who can fire it at 100 mph and you kind of know where it’s...3267Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:57:03 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/max-scherzer-needs-strikeouts/Facing the team that drafted him 20 years earlier, Max Scherzer righted the ship after back-to-back short starts. His outings against the Dodgers and the Twins were enough to make me worry an IL stint was imminent, but Scherzer cruised through six innings on 74 pitches in Arizona, holding the Di...3263Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:12:05 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/guerrero-rogers-clement-analysis/Welcome to Shape of the Blue Jays, my column where I dig into Statcast numbers to analyze recent pitch shape and swing shape trends for Toronto Blue Jays players and discuss how they have impacted their performance. Click here to read the last edition. Quick Hits: Reinforcements Tre...3274Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:55:05 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/yariel-rodriguez-making-changes/Baseball can change, and baseball can change fast. Just take a look at Yariel Rodríguez. In 2024, he was a key piece in the starting rotation, making 21 starts and pitching to a respectable 4.47 ERA. In 2025, he joined the bullpen and was dynamite in the first half, with a 2.47 ERA and a 25.6% K...3265Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:10:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/unwilling-aggressive-stealing-bases/The Toronto Blue Jays started their season with a three-game sweep over the Athletics. Since then, Toronto has gone 7-13, including losing five of six games to the Colorado Rockies and the Chicago White Sox, the two worst teams last season. It's not the start the team or fans had hoped for after...3269Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:54:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/louis-varland-one-pitch-save/The Blue Jays have something special in Louis Varland. The 28-year-old has been, almost certainly, the AL's best reliever so far in 2026. Of the 49 AL arms with at least 10 innings pitched in relief this season, Varland is one of just two who have yet to allow an earned run, and one of just nine...3266Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:57:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/davis-schneider-breakout-finally/This piece was written prior to the Blue Jays' game on Tuesday, April 21. It was only three years ago that the Toronto Blue Jays had an unheralded prospect who came out of nowhere to put on a show for his major league debut. That prospect, of course, was Davis Schneider, who was selected in...3258Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:12:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/eric-lauer-changeup/Eric Lauer wanted to prove he could start full-time in 2026. He hasn't had the results he was hoping for yet. Much like the rest of the Blue Jays, Lauer looked sharp in the season's opening series against the Athletics. Then the floor fell out from under him. Battling through the flu, he l...3262Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:52:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/run-differential-warning/This piece was written prior to the Blue Jays game on Monday, April 20. The thing about run differential is that it paints a pretty clear picture of whether a team is good or not. You can hide a shaky bullpen for a week. You can ride a hot bat for a series. You can even be convinced that a...3260Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:52:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/dylan-cease-arsenal-transformation/Dylan Cease has been off to an excellent start this season, posting a 1.74 ERA over 20 2/3 innings. His 36.0% strikeout rate (32 strikeouts) leads AL pitchers with at least 20 innings pitched. Although, it's not all pretty, as his 5.23 walks per nine innings would be his second-worst rate over h...3255Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:17:02 +0000